Three men arrested after attempt to defraud elderly woman of €10,000

GARDAI have arrested three men after they attempted to defraud a woman in her 80s out of €10,000 at her bank.

The men, from the Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, cut down a number of trees at the woman’s home and did some painting at her house.

The typical cost of such work would come to a few hundred euro. But the men charged the woman several thousand euro and brought her to her bank to withdraw the money. Bank staff got suspicious when she asked to withdraw such a large sum and alerted the gardaí.